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"Without emotional content
we make pictures; with it,
we create art."
    Join Jerry for a dynamic course in
    design. This workshop goes beyond
    most watercolor and collage
    workshops, and emphasizes design
    applications for all types of
    compositional formats.  Emphasis
    will be placed on the use of value
    contrasts, visual movement, limited
    palettes, temperature contrasts,
    space division, proportions and
    shapes as they apply to specific
    problems and experiences.  Projects
    will be directed and demonstrated in
    a non-objective context, but artists
    may work in any desired direction.  
    Jerry has authored more than 22
    books including Emotional Content:  
    How to Paint Landscapes that
    Communicate.  His award-winning
    work has been featured in American
    Artist, The Artist’s Magazine,
    Watercolor Magic and International
    Artist.  He is a life member and past
    President of the National Watercolor
    Society.

"Emotional Content:
How to Create Paintings
That Communicate"
Gerald Brommer
Designing with Watermedia
Studio

July 7 - 11
Bend, OR

Cost $580

Beginning to Advanced

    GERALD BROMMER is completely involved in art as an
    innovative watercolor and acrylic painter, collagist,
    teacher, author and juror. He has written more than 22
    books for high school and college art classes, on a wide
    range of art subjects. He has also edited many high
    school and college texts and resource books for
    teachers. His books are published by Davis Publications
    of Worcester, Massachusetts; by WatsonGuptill
    Publishers of New York City; and by International Artist of
    Sydney, Australia.

    He has won awards in most national competitive
    watercolor shows and has had over 1 60 one-man
    shows from Alaska to Florida. He juries several national
    watercolor shows and regional exhibits each year and
    his own work is in over 4200 private and permanent
    collections in 44 states and nine overseas countries.

    His biography is listed in every major who’s who in
    England and America.


    After 26 years of teaching high school art, he continues
    his teaching activities by leading workshops in all parts of
    this country and overseas. He is a Life Member and Past
    President of the National Watercolor Society, Honorary
    President of the National Association of Painters in
    Acrylics, and a member of many other art organizations.
    His work has appeared in numerous books as well as in
    American Artist, Southwest Art, The Artist’s Magazine,
    International Artist, Watercolor Magic, Watercolor and
    other national art magazines in America, England,
    Belgium and Australia.

Class Outline - DESIGNING WITH WATERCOLOR or acrylic AND COLLAGE
        
       MONDAY - DESIGNING WITH VALUE CONTRASTS - EMPHASIS ON MOVEMENT
            DISCUSSION:  Purposes, goals and directions for the week.  Working with value contrasts.
            DEMONSTRATION:  Building a collage that emphasizes movement and focus.
            WORK:  Work on 2 white boards or papers as demonstrated.  Arrange and adhere.  Add white papers where
    needed.           
                            Add limited colors, if desirable, with watercolor and/or gouache - to finish.
            DISCUSSION AND CRITIQUE:  Two matted pieces from each artist.  Mat openings, 10x14 inches.

    TUESDAY - DESIGNING WITH COLOR - USING LIMITED PALETTE AND MOVEMENT
            DISCUSSION:  Use of limited palette:  Importance of visual movement in a design.
            DEMONSTRATION:  Processes and possibilities, using stained papers and collage.
            WORK:  Use three 11x11 inch squares of 300# watercolor paper or illustration board.
                            Stain washi with watercolor and add touches of gouache, if needed.
                            Develop cruciform, bridge and T-shaped format.  Arrange papers and adhere, overlapping colors
                            Glaze over with watercolor and add touches of gouache, if needed.
            DISCUSSION AND CRITIQUE:  Mat two pieces from each artist.

    WEDNESDAY - DESIGNING WITH SPACE - USING SPACE TO CREATE TENSION
            DISCUSSION:  Using space to create tension in collages and paintings.  Importance of proportion.
            DEMONSTRATION:  Expansion, compaction and containment as elements that create tension.
            WORK:  On 11x11 inch squares of 300# watercolor paper
                            Develop large and small spaces that create visual tension; proportions are important.
                            Stained papers with earth colors or your own color schemes.
                            Adhere papers; add watercolor and/or gouache; make compacted space important.
                            Add colored pencils or other media if needed; magazine colors and type can be added, also.
            DISCUSSION AND CRITIQUE:  Mat 2 pieces, vertically or horizontally.

    THURSDAY - DESIGNING WITH TEMPERATURE - WARM AND COOL CONTRASTS
            DISCUSSION:  Use of color to create a temperature dominance, (or color dominance)
            DEMONSTRATION:  Processes and applications in developing color dominance in collage.
            WORK:  Work on two 11x15 inch white illustration boards or 1/4 sheet 300# watercolor paper.
                            Review series of alternate design formats (see design sheets provided)
                            Use process of underpainting - applying washi- glazing-finishing. Watercolor and collage.
                            Magazine type and colors can be collage also.  Finish with glazing, calligraphy or other methods.
            DISCUSSION AND CRITIQUE:  Mat two pieces, either vertically or horizontally.

    FRIDAY - DESIGNING WITH SHAPES - SHAPES WITHIN SHAPES
            DISCUSSION:  Discuss and illustrate shape within shape concept.  Personal directions.
            DEMONSTRATION:  Shapes within shape design concept; examples and demonstrations.
            WORK:  Work on two 11x15 inch pieces of illustration board or 1/4 sheet 300# watercolor paper
                            Underpaint to extablish the desired design format.  Develop contrasts.  Watercolor and collage.
                            Build the surface with collaged papers, paints, other tools, printing, magazine papers, etc.
                            Add glazes for unity and to develop movement within the shapes (opaque and transparent)
                            Add final marks, calligraphy, focal emphasis and so on.  Finish.
           DISCUSSION AND CRITIQUE:  Mat two pieces for final critique.
           FINAL DISCUSSION:  Open discussions and conclusions.